Journal
PSYCHOLOGY & HEALTH
Volume 31, Issue 11, Pages 1311-1327Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2016.1204451
Keywords
Dispositional self-control; eating behaviours; weight; longitudinal changes; health behaviours
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In a random sample from the general population (N=2781, 46% males), a longitudinal survey was conducted. The association between dispositional self-control and changes in eating behaviours and diet quality was analysed between the first wave (2010) and the last wave (2014). Results show that the higher the dispositional self-control, the lower the increase in overeating behaviours (emotional eating, external eating, ambivalence towards palatable food and overeating), and BMI and the larger the improvement in healthy diet over time. Self-control was not associated with changes in dietary restraint. This is one of the first studies suggesting that dispositional self-control is associated with changes in eating behaviours and healthy food intake over time.
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